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Levitation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LEVITA'TION, n. [L. levis, levitas.] Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means
2: movement upward in virtue of lightness [ant: gravitation]
3: the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1668 the act or process of levitating; especially the rising or lifting of a person or thing by means held to be supernatural • levitational adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Levitation Lev`i*ta"tion (-t[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L. levis light in weight.] 1. Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light. --Paley. 2. The act or process of making buoyant.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see levitate

Moby Thesaurus

Ouija, airiness, anabasis, ascension, ascent, automatic writing, automatism, bubbliness, buoyancy, clamber, climb, climbing, daintiness, delicacy, downiness, elevation, escalade, ethereality, floatability, fluffiness, foaminess, fountain, frothiness, gentleness, gossameriness, gush, gyring up, increase, jet, jump, lack of weight, leap, levity, lightness, materialization, mount, mounting, planchette, poltergeist, poltergeistism, psychography, psychorrhagy, rise, rising, rocketing up, saltation, shooting up, soaring, softness, spirit manifestation, spirit rapping, spout, spring, spurt, surge, table tipping, takeoff, taking off, telekinesis, teleportation, telesthesia, tenderness, trance speaking, unheaviness, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vault, volatility, weightlessness, yeastiness, zooming